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Message: [QUOTE="frankthetank, post: 2823653, member: 2517"] The contract details probably won't ever be made public. However, as I noted previously, it's standard to have a most favored nation clause in basic cable agreements, so BTN (or any other basic cable network) can't offer a better deal to Comcast compared to DirecTV, Dish, et. al or else they automatically have to provide that same price to *all* of the cable providers. As a result, you can generally expect that Comcast's new deal is in line with what the BTN has with everyone else. That's the whole reason why you see such prolonged carriage disputes in the first place. All of these cable subscriber fee amounts are effectively intertwined with these most favored nation clauses, so when a cable network locks in a certain subscriber price with one provider, it simply cannot offer anything lower than that price to any other provider. This is particularly acute in places where a network that has common ownership with a cable provider essentially self-deals a high subscriber fee price to its sister cable provider company that other providers balk at. (See the then-Time Warner Cable-owned and now-Charter-owned Dodgers network that is going on year 5 of not being on DirecTV. That creates the strange situation where everyone that has the MLB Network *outside* of the LA area actually gets more access to those Dodgers games, which are frequently simulcast on that channel, than the majority of the LA market itself.) [/QUOTE]

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